Collaborative - BPC-DP: Testers to Techies: Culturally Aware and Authentic Computing Education through Game Testing

协作 - BPC-DP：从测试人员到技术人员：通过游戏测试进行文化意识和真实的计算教育

• 批准号: 0837733
• 负责人: Amy Bruckman
• 金额: $ 40.4万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-12-01 至 2012-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0837733&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; BPC; DP; Testers; Techies

The Georgia Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Morehouse College and the Georgia Computes! BPC Alliance, proposes the creation of the Tester to Techie (TtT) program to engage low-income African American youth in computing. The program will leverage teenage boys? love of video games to encourage their participation in computing education and to introduce them to technical careers. It will offer teens an apprenticeship as game testers, providing them with an authentic experience beta testing games for real game companies. In addition, it will provide them with a contextualized computing curriculum focused on games and game testing. The program will introduce them to the game industry, not to create future game testers, but to exploit their interest in video games, so that they can look inside the black box of the games to see the power and potential of computation.

格鲁吉亚理工学院与莫尔豪斯学院和格鲁吉亚计算机学院合作！BPC联盟提议建立“测试员到技术员”（TtT）计划，让低收入的非洲裔美国青年参与计算。该项目将利用青少年男孩？对电子游戏的热爱，鼓励他们参与计算机教育，并向他们介绍技术职业。它将为青少年提供一个作为游戏测试员的学徒，为他们提供一个真实的体验，为真实的游戏公司测试游戏。此外，它将为他们提供一个上下文计算课程，重点是游戏和游戏测试。该计划将向他们介绍游戏行业，不是为了培养未来的游戏测试人员，而是为了利用他们对视频游戏的兴趣，让他们能够看到游戏的黑匣子，看到计算的力量和潜力。